During the 2022 campaign and the 2023 legislative session, in the immediate wake of burning through a $19B surplus, that the DFL claimed that the spending binge would “Reduce Poverty by 30%”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sessions ended a year ago yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So how’s that going?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, apparently we won’t know for another couple of years. The MN Department of Health’s poverty numbers<\/a> end in 2022 – when they were rising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to some sources generally aligned with the<\/a> left, poverty was steady to up; to others<\/a>, it was rising…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …as of the end of 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But since the spending orgy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n No idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All I know is, the DFL has been incredibly quiet about the subject for this past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There appears to be an 18-24 month lag getting poverty numbers to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So they spent $19B, and raised the budget 40%, to “eradicate” something…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …that they couldn’t test until well after this fall’s election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weird. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the 2022 campaign and the 2023 legislative session, in the immediate wake of burning through a $19B surplus, that the DFL claimed that the spending binge would “Reduce Poverty by 30%”. The sessions ended a year ago yesterday. So how’s that going? Well, apparently we won’t know for another couple of years. The MN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87608,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85246\/revisions\/87608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}